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Scolytidae

noun

large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees

• Syn: ↑family Scolytidae, ↑Ipidae, ↑family Ipidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Coleoptera, ↑order Coleoptera

• Member Meronyms: ↑Scolytus, ↑genus Scolytus, ↑Dendroctonus, ↑genus Dendroctonus, ↑bark beetle

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\\-d.əˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Scolytus, type genus + -idae

: a large family of bark-boring or wood-boring rhynchophorous beetles having a very short beak and clubbed antennae and being small but very destructive to forest trees and fruit trees — see bark beetle

Useful english dictionary. 2012.